{"id":11452,"date":"2019-10-15T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2019-10-14T21:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T02:11:03","slug":"interstate-880-coming-to-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/interstate-880-coming-to-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstate 880 coming to Iowa!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11456\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/80_680_wb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/80_680_wb.jpg 580w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/80_680_wb-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 24, 2019:<\/strong> For a limited time only<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fall meeting of the AASHTO Special Committee on Route Numbering, which took place Oct. 5, has a doozy of a bombshell.\u00a0Immediate reaction:\u00a0W.T.F.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/v3-app_crowdc\/assets\/b\/ba\/ba708eca603c86f1\/000_USRN_Agenda_and_List_of_Applications__AM_St_Louis__MO-2019_%28nc%29.original.1570033411.pdf?1570033413\"><em>Item No. 5 &#8211; State: Iowa Route: I-880<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Action: Establishment of an Interstate Route between I-29\/I-680 North Interchange in Pottawattamie County and I-80\/680 Interchange in Pottawattamie County.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Description: This request pertains to the establishment of Interstate 880, and the removal of the Interstate 680 route designations from the I-29 and I-680 North Interchange to the I-680 and I-80 Interchange in Pottawattamie County. This new Interstate route is being established to help avoid routing confusion during flooding events that have occurred recently in the area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The official announcement came Monday. Stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/content\/news\/Northern-tier-of-I-680-to-be-renamed-I-880-563078321.html\">WOWT<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/eastern-portion-of-i--in-iowa-to-be-renamed\/article_5f6356b3-3753-5e3b-bebb-ebed3d57206f.html\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kfab.iheart.com\/content\/2019-10-14-name-change-for-interstate-system-from-loveland-to-minden-iowa-i-880\/\">KFAB-AM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What&#39;s in a name? Having two portions of a road both named I-680 got pretty confusing to some people during this flood season. To reduce the confusion, we&#39;ve renamed the northern portion I-880. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IHT2E997x2\">pic.twitter.com\/IHT2E997x2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Statewide Iowa 511 (@statewideia511) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statewideia511\/status\/1183905833463271424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is so flabbergasting and ridiculous I&#8217;m going to have to wait a while to actually rant about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 24, 2019: For a limited time only The fall meeting of the AASHTO Special Committee on Route Numbering, which took place Oct. 5, has a doozy of a bombshell.\u00a0Immediate reaction:\u00a0W.T.F. Item No. 5 &#8211; State: Iowa Route: I-880 Action: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/interstate-880-coming-to-iowa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11471,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions\/11471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}